I Must Be Full

I’ve read about this plant in our Visual Food book….have never seen it until today.

100 year old place.

Portillo’s — Italian Beef Sandwich and a Chicago Dog.   We didn’t get to go to Milwaukee because Clay had to go to a meeting here in Chicago.  I went to the Vale Craft Gallery, and Durry to the Newberry Library.  THEN…we went to the Garfield Park Conservatory — the world’s(?) largest.  Amazing.  Anyone who lives [...]

We’ve arrived.  This is the view from our humble hotel downtown.  That’s the new Trump Tower on the left.  When Durry was last here in Chicago the Sun-Times Building was being being destroyed to make way for Trump’s tallest building.  The little round building peaking up on the right is one of the Marina Towers….they [...]

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What did you do on your summer vacation?  I built these bookcases: I’m the ED for our local Historical Society (you can learn more about us at humboldthistory.org).  We needed new storage for some of our genealogy books.  Wish I had more time to build stuff. Okay, now that summer’s over maybe we’ll have some [...]

Very moist dough for “pizza bianca”…..a very chewy flatbread from Cook’s Illustrated.  The dough will be baked with a rosemary, salt, and thinnly sliced red onions on top.  This creatiion is going to the farm for the end-of-the-season potluck.

Absentee ballot.  I’ll be on a train on election day.  This goes in the mail today.

Without giving it too much thought, stop and take a self-timed picture of yourself.  Post it, or email the photo to me and I will do it for you.